The Letter F:

About the Book

The Letter F: The Process of Civilly Changing Sex documents and chronicles the actual process of changing one’s sex from male to female in the eyes of the state. Further, it opens a political conversation around changing our notion of sex through a functional civil discourse around bodies, identities, and personhood. Containing texts of actual correspondence between the author and both corporations and government agencies, this work details not only the means of a civil sex change, but also the repercussions of the higher-order problems intrinsic to such a metamorphosis. Rigorously honest, combining accessible prose with academic integrity, this work exposes bedrock on which we can build a new platform of basic human rights for all Americans, regardless of sex or gender.

About the Author

Identifying as a transgender woman, Rosa Lee Klaneski is an advocate for individual rights for all of the queer community. She attended Amherst College where she studied mathematics, physics, and played men’s rugby. She graduated in 2005 from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, with a B.A. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality as the 2005 Presidential Fellow in her discipline, having been honored with the IDP Council Award and the Sicherman Prize. She received her M.A. in Public Policy Analysis from Trinity in 2009. She describes her first book, Why Feminists Are Wrong: How Transsexuals Prove that Gender is not a Social Construction, as “a work of art—a profoundly pro-feminist statement written as an anti-feminist statement using language only a feminist would understand.”